CAS RN 106 Study Guide - Final Guide: Quran, Ali, Humbaba

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Lecture 2 reading: how to know if you"re dead?, 167-198. Dead people are not as much of a priority, there is no urgency, in comparison to a person going into surgery, however you can be both (a beating heart cadaver, dead everywhere except for your brain) People are defined as dead once their heart stops beating back in the death, you used to have to wait around until you could smell the rotting of humans to determine that they were indeed dead. Experiments to determine whether or not you could weigh the soul, it was mistaken with the loss of weight from a dead patient due to the ending of bodily functions. People often attributed the liver and the heart with death and life. The heart still beats once it is cut away from the chest. A heart transplant patient said that he felt the soul of the previous organ owner due to.